BPA Sets a Wind Production Record for Its Grid

ByRod Adams August 18, 2009July 16, 2020

The Clean Skies News Energy Report: Afternoon Edition of August 17, 2009 concluded with a report about a wind electricity production record set on August 6, 2009. The video from that report is posted below. It is clipped from the report, but otherwise unedited. I am sharing it with you under the site’s Creative Commons license. The numbers shared in the report are thought and comment provoking.

There is also a text version of the same story titled BPA Wind Farm Reaches New Mark

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Sobering thoughts on oil for 2006
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Ronald Cooke, author of Oil, Jihad and Destiny has published an article on Energy Pulse titled The 2006 Economic Forecast: Oil Remains a Wildcard that should be required reading for government policy making officials. If you are involved in any government economics policy or if you are a strategic planner for a business, or if…
Atomic Show Number 61 – Interview with Dr. Allison MacFarlane, Atomic Agnostic
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Last night I had an interesting chat with Dr. Allison MacFarlane. She is an Associate Professor of Environment Science and Policy at George Mason University and a research associate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University. She also co-authored Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the…
Brookings Institution Policy Brief #138 – The Political Economy of Nuclear Energy in the United States
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I stumbled across a Brookings Institution Policy Brief titled The Political Economy of Nuclear Energy in the United States that is dated September 2004. Oh what a difference a year can make. After reading the briefing closely, I took the advice offered at the bottom of the last page of the brief and composed a…
Lengthy, but important, historical perspective on nuclear reactor regulation
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Mike Fox, an old acquaintance of mine, retired to Hawaii after more than 40 years in the nuclear business. He was a pretty careful observer of the world around him, and he now writes for the Hawaii Reporter. Another old friend recently sent a link to an article that Mike published at the end of…
Detailed Information About Australia Coal Miner's Carbon Capture and Sequestration Efforts
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This post will be one that evolves over time – especially if I can get some help from readers. My intention is to put together a representative series of quotes and links that show the rhythmic beat of the “cheap gas” mantra. I am not a believer – I think that the oil and gas…

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